Randy Gardner holds a Guinness world record for the longest period of time a human being has intentionally gone without sleep not using stimulants of any kind. In 1964, as a 17-year-old high school student in San Diego, California, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days),, with the help of friends, TV reporters, and shooting hoops. Wikipedia
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A Cornish man says he has broken the world record for sleep deprivation by staying awake for 11 days and nights. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6689999.stm
The failure of the scientific world to recognize this is due to some extent to the folklore that has grown up around the sleepless marathon of high school student Randy Gardner in 1964. www.psychiatrictimes.com/p980301b.html
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The current world record for the longest period without sleep is 11 days, set by Randy Gardner in 1965. www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/articles/whatisslee...
